Member Since: 20/11/2005
Band Website: see right below "MAIN SITE"
Band Members: MY MAIN SITE
My personal page on MySpace ,
Even though I'm perfectly happy being a studio mole, or a pen+paper hermit,
I love to work WITH many other folks:
Alphonse Izzo
SOUNDunderGROUND
Thomas Kozumplik (of "The Clogs")
Loop2.4.3
NOSFERATU LIVE SOUNDTRACK
Tom Burnett
John R. Williamson
Gareth Gibson (www.soundskill.com)
various ensembles and chamber groups
"Projects for a New Millennium"(www.projects2k.org)
GOORILLA...
and my beloved Neighborhood Music School
in New Haven, CT!
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MUSIC
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PUNK!!!! (in EVERY genre), avant garde, serialism, minimalism, electronic music, computer music, electronica, dance music, hard-core, renaissance music, folk music, Hungarian culture, Asian culture, piano music, rock of the 60's and early 70's, improvisation, jazz, aleatoric music, pythagoras, music history, music theory (i.e. "musical scatology"), fibonacci series, golden ratio, structure, apple computers, anime, surreal, dada, impressionism, primitivism, technology, Bela Bartok, Butthole surfers, Beethoven, The Residents, Johannes Brahms, Aphex Twin, Gyorgy Ligeti, Dj Spooky (Paul D. Miller), Morton Feldman, Pixies, John Cage, The Doors, Arvo Part, Pink Floyd, Olivier Messiaen, Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, Igor Stravinsky, Bill Evans, Edgar Varese, Bjork, RadioHead, Carl Orff, Soul Coughing, Alexander Scriabine, Frank Zappa, Erick Satie, Neil Young, Witold Lutoslawski, Getz+Gilberto, Blondie, Louis Armstrong, Beatles, Ink Spots, Jimmie Hendrix, Anthony Braxton, Steppenwolf, George Crumb, King Crimson, Henryck Gorecki, Grassy Knoll, Kenneth Gaburo, Crystal Method, Krysztof Penderecki, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Poulenc, Arnold Scheonberg, Berg, Anton von Webern, Echo and the Bunnymen, Plasmatics, Severed Heads, Dead Milkmen, Black Flag, FEAR, Talvin Singh, Robert Carl, David Macbride, James Sellars, Steven Gryc, Ingram Marshall, Gesualdo, Allegri, Palestrina, Frescobaldi, Buxtehude, J. S. Bach, Franz Liszt, Schubert, Berlioz, Gustav Mahler, Frederic Chopin, A.+D. Scarlatti, Alfred Schnittke, Dimitri Shostokovich, Robert Nasta, Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, Richard D. James, Cecil Taylor, Morton Subotnick, Wendy Carlos, Paul Hindemith, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, John Adams, Vladimir Horowitz, Steve Mackey, Burning Sensations, Magyar Gregorianum, Hungarian Culture, Philipino Culture, Thelonius Monk, Balazs Szokolay, Alphonse Izzo, Kubrick, Danny Kaye, Pete Seeger, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Donovan, Steely Dan, Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Cream, early Scorpions, Muppet Show and Sesame Street, toy piano, Mr. Forbes (who made me believe that I COULD play music at an early age), my first piece- my very first kiss... (this is a very small sampling)
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OTHER INFLUENCES
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racing, sailing, FIAT X 1/9 (souped up), Ferarri, Mazerati, cooking, reading, films, photography, Apple, gear-lust, biking, tennis, PS2, drawing, ceramics, all other forms of ART!!!, hating the Bush administration, building a nice fire on a crisp New England evening, anything HUNGARIAN, Hungary, different cultures around the world, never stop being a student, NOT being an "expert", a 4-year-old child is our greatest teacher, tibet, climbing, underwater, a good wine and a beautiful sunset...
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FILM INFLUENCES
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The Shining, Jan Svenkmejer's "Faust", Nosferatu, Metropolis, ANYTHING Hitchcock, a lot of old-fart b+w films, independant films, "Never cry wolf", Matrix series, Rings (all of 'em), Galaxy Quest (watch it in the Thermian soundtrack...I DARE you), Narnia, Harry Potter, PIXAR, Akira, Cowboy BeBop, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, The Iron Giant, F3, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Spiderman, the LAST Batman, Interview with a Vampire, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Schultz gets the Blues, Ronin, The Italian Job, Magnificent Seven, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Alien, the Brothers QUAY stuff, Tarkovsky's wacked-out films, (MANY more later)
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TV INFLUENCES
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I desperately try NOT watch the damed thing...I'll tape John Stewart, Good Eats, CAR repair and racing, Victory by Design episodes on esoteric Italian autos, and some fun Adult Swim stuff...TV = EVIL...it ROTZ yor brayne
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BOOK INFLUENCES
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Currently on my reading shelf: "Sensitive Chaos" Schwenk, Ligeti biography by Toop, Sibelius program manual, Suzuki "Zen Mind Beginner's Mind", "History of Orchestration" Carse, "Film Music" Prenergast, "Anatomy of an Orchestra" Del Mar, "The Orchestra" Peyser, "The Artist's Way" Cameron, "Dreams" Rain, "Materials and Techniques of 20th C Music" Kostka, Wourinen's "Simple Composition", Gauldin's "A Practical Approach to 16th C Counterpoint", "Jitterbug Perfume" Robbins, "Tibetan Book of the Dead" Evans-Wentz, "Essential Rumi" Barks, "The World is Sound: Nada Brahma" Berendt, "Circumscribing the Open Universe" Delio, "Every Tree is the Forest" by Emoke B'Racz
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HERO INFLUENCES
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My Mother and Father, and my two darling sisters. My fiancee...my family...They really are my heroes.
Sounds Like: ranges from tonal electronic new-agey to atonal and hard-core...depending on the venue and my moods. You'll probaly hear shades of Ligeti, Bartok, Part, Feldman, Gesualdo, Miles, Bill Evans, folk music, chant and Stravinsky mixed in with Butthole Surfers, AphexTwin, Bjork, DJ Spooky, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Singh...and that changes day to day...
here are some quick-links to my works so you can hear them
(just click on the "preview" to hear it:
Papyrus Nugator I:Hungarian Childhood
Goorilla vs. Nosferatu
He was a poet
Izzy the Frog in Lumina Land
"X-Fields" for Orchestra, first movement
The Trip
ElectricIxtalan I
Poe1
Dirge
Sphere1
Forestranger (Part 1)
Izzy Eye-Dantz
IzzyGruve
Pre-Lude
White Rabbit
Tin Man
Bach's Baroque Blender II
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Record Label: http://www.tracelab.com/
Type of Label: Indie